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Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is an Australian politician and the 38th and current Premier of Queensland since 26 March 2012. He has been the leader of the liberal-conservative Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) since April 2011, and was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011.
Newman was elected Lord Mayor as a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Since the July 2008 merger of the Queensland Liberals and National Party of Australia (Nationals), Newman has been a member of the LNP.
In March 2011, Newman announced that he would challenge Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek for the leadership of the LNP. Langbroek resigned, and Newman was elected his successor. As Newman was not a member of the Legislative Assembly of ...

CAMPBELL Newman has agreed to visit the Southern Downs next month, Member for Southern Downs Lawrence Springborg has revealed. Mr Springborg contacted the Daily News this week to say he was working on the state LNP leader visiting Stanthorpe and Warwick on September 22 and 23. This confirmation came days after a non-committal response from Mr Newman's spokeswoman about when he would visit. “There is a function in Stanthorpe on the Thursday night we will attend and we will be going around and meeting with some of the community leaders,” Mr Springborg said. “We'll also look ...

Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman has returned fire in a political tussle over election preference deals, demanding Premier Anna Bligh rule out a deal with the Greens. Yesterday Ms Bligh took a swipe at her election rival, accusing Mr Newman of flirting with the prospect of swapping preferences with the newly re-registered One Nation Party. Ruling out such a deal, Mr Newman tried today to turn the heat back onto Ms Bligh over a potential preferences deal between Labor and the Greens at the next state election. Advertisement: Story continues below The Greens attracted 8.37 per ...

Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman says he's happy for financial interests from his time as Brisbane lord mayor to be revealed.But he won't be releasing a new list ahead of the Queensland election. Treasurer Andrew Fraser is pushing for Mr Newman, who is running for the seat of Ashgrove, to reveal his financial interests according to the rules governing MPs. MPs are required to table their pecuniary interests in the parliament, but Mr Newman is not an MP and therefore does not have to. Mr Fraser said Mr Newman's unique position meant he should declare them anyway. Mr Newman ...

The rise and fall of Campbell Newman - ABC OnlineABC OnlineThe rise and fall of Campbell NewmanABC OnlineThe appointment of a new Queensland premier marks an end to the remarkable rise and fall of Campbell Newman. He parachuted into the top job from outside state parliament to rescue the Liberal National Party (LNP) from 14 long years of opposition.Opinion: Campbell Newman's backbench pondered punting him when his ...Courier MailNew QLD cabinet4BCQueensland gets Labor govtThe New Dailyall 293 news articles »